Building My Own App | Day in the Life of a Software Engineer in London (ep. 15)

[@JacobSargentTech]

Hey everyone! It's been a while, and I'm sorry for the gap between my recent videos. I've been swamped with client projects, but I'm back now with weekly uploads! Get ready for some exciting content as I focus more on growing Interlu and sharing this journey with you. Thanks for your patience, and let's dive in! 🚀

[@gusnje98]

How do you get the company data? A 3rd party API?

[@JacobSargentTech]

​@@gusnje98 companies house have their own free api, it's pretty fun to play around with.

[@fuadadio]

This is your first video I'm watching and I'm hooked already. Well-done. Great video, great product, Interlu!

[@JacobSargentTech]

Awesome! Thank you for your comment. I am looking forward to sharing more with you next week 👍

[@_andrewpeacock]

Just found your channel... may or may not have binged LOADS of videos! Definitely motivates me to keep content creator DITL style videos myself! Appreciate you Jacob, look forward to the next video!

[@JacobSargentTech]

Thanks for your kind words Andrew, there's more content on the way!

[@JakTbh]

enjoyed the tech breakdown at the end - more of that please!

[@JacobSargentTech]

Will do Jak, happy to hear you enjoyed the tech breakdown. Stay tuned for next weeks episode 👊

[@AlexDynniq]

Hi Jacob, welcome back! Do you wear blue light glasses?

[@JacobSargentTech]

I do, and have been for the last couple of years at work. I feel I get less headaches if I wear them 👊

[@rayediaz]

Been waiting for this moment.

[@JacobSargentTech]

Thanks for your comment Rayediaz, I’ve been looking forward to uploading this video!

[@s3tt1ngs90]

Here to learn. Great content Sir.

[@JacobSargentTech]

Glad to hear it, hope you found the video insightful! Let me know if you have any questions.

[@IkraamDev]

Welcome back.

[@JacobSargentTech]

It’s good to be back 🫡🫡🫡

[@frontend_coder]

What do you think about AI? Do you think it will replace developers(especially frontend devs), or it won't?

[@JacobSargentTech]

Good question, I don’t believe it will for at least next 15-20 years. Yes it will make it more efficient but for big companies to change/replace a whole job industries takes time.

[@frontend_coder]

Thanks for quick answer!​@@JacobSargentTech

[@frontend_coder]

Hi! Do you work on this project alone? Or you have the whole team, who help you?

[@JacobSargentTech]

Hey, thanks for your comment. I’m running it solo for now!

[@johnedet2987]

wow.. quite an interesting project Just a quick question, from where do you get the api for querying the data??

[@JacobSargentTech]

Another good question! The majority of the data comes from the Companies House API, it's free and fun to use. Thanks for your comment 👍

[@paulikhane]

What is the design reason behind making Interlu's screen section that display's the data small with lots of space to the right and left? I think it can be improved.

[@JacobSargentTech]

Hi Paul, thanks for your comment and thoughts. I'd be open to updating the layout if you can share a figma file perhaps? Cheers for your support 👊

[@Vagabondi404]

intesting, isn't it gonna be costly though to have GPT analyse so many documents constantly ?

[@JacobSargentTech]

Really good point - so the way it works is we OCR the JPG from the PDF document, this returns a string, if that string contains keywords in relation to 'employees' we then (and only then) pass it to GPT to extract the employee count in a JSON format, so it's generating very little text and therefore not that costly. Hope that makes sense, would be open to ideas you have to make it more efficient!

[@frontend_coder]

What tools do you use to create such applications? (an idea for a new video)

[@JacobSargentTech]

Great idea for a video “my preferred tech stack”. Thanks for your comment 🙏

[@myworldworks]

It's about time

[@JacobSargentTech]

Yep that's my bad! I've been busy with client work and not had time to work on Interlu. Back for good now I promise 👊

[@camsdonostudios3363]

heads up there is a weird thing if someone clicks on your profile it takes them to the wrong one for some reason guessing its on yt ends

[@JacobSargentTech]

Yeah I'm aware, I've contacted KZbin support - hopefully they'll sort it soon 👍

[@BarakerZeonlist]

i love your channel so much

[@JacobSargentTech]

Thanks for your support Baraker, I hope you find value from my videos 🙌

[@BarakerZeonlist]

@@JacobSargentTech yeah keep it up

[@samtitmuss1365]

Is using the OpenAI sdk for the employee count shown as being 100% accurate? Have you noticed any misplacing's?

[@JacobSargentTech]

Hey Sam! I think you can never say it's 100% accurate, but I've found it to work well so far, I've had to improve the prompt a few times because it started to add up numbers. I'll keep experimenting with it and share my results on the channel! Hope you're doing well 👊

[@samtitmuss1365]

@@JacobSargentTech Awesome stuff and great work. All well, hope you are too!

[@ifydev]

Am I the only one watching from Nigeria? I can't access your website link, may be my location was not plan into it lols.

[@JacobSargentTech]

Hey, thanks for letting me know. Did you manage to get access?

[@geralddd.g]

Finally man, where have you been?

[@JacobSargentTech]

Hey Gerald, I’ve been busy with client work and not had any time to work on Interlu recently. I’m going to be finding more time for it now 👍 so you’ll be getting more videos 🚀

[@nate8568]

can you share the Notion template you are using?

[@JacobSargentTech]

Hey Nate, thanks for your comment. I'll look to share it in my next newsletter edition so be sure to be subscribed! jacobschangelog.substack.com/

[@shrunkensimon]

Do you use typescript for your projects?

[@JacobSargentTech]

I have used it in the past, and do have it included in interlu's front end, but I don't use it that much, I feel is slows me down and at this stage speed matters! Perhaps I will start to use it more once I start bringing people on to help me, until then I'm running type free 🏃

[@Joe-tw6lh]

good job

[@JacobSargentTech]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@RationalRays]

what tech stack are you using mate?

[@JacobSargentTech]

Hey, thanks for your comment. I'm using Next.js for the front end and node.js with express for the backend, along with MongoDB for the database.

[@titangaming2470]

can you open source the project, I really want to help you building this application!

[@JacobSargentTech]

I may open the repo up to a select few who want to work on it. Maybe one day I’ll open source it completely 🙌 thanks for your comment 🙏

[@TOn-fx2gr]

Whats is the the name of the software you are using to manage you project tasks/status at 9:02

[@JacobSargentTech]

It’s called ‘notion’ 👍

[@gourabsarker9552]

Sir do you earn 140k pound sterlings a year as a software engineer in UK? Plz reply. Thanks a lot.

[@JacobSargentTech]

Hi Gourab, thanks for your comment. Software engineers salaries range based on experience and location. £140k you’d expect to be a lead of staff engineer 👍

[@abdulhannan8129]

Hello sir. Sir I am not good at maths so can I learn dsa and practice dsa and actually become good at it??

[@JacobSargentTech]

Yes you can, practice is key, don't miss a day!

[@abdulhannan8129]

@@JacobSargentTech thanq you sir

[@abdulhannan8129]

@@JacobSargentTech Sir I also have another question when you start learning dsa how good are you at maths?? And what type of maths topics help you in learning dsa please make a video on it🙏🙏

[@JacobSargentTech]

I did Physics at school and a-level which I've found to be most helpful 👍

[@chileduonganh8905]

what branch is your monitor ?

[@JacobSargentTech]

It’s an LG 4K usb c monitor, I love it, but I’ve been thinking about upgrading to a Apple studio pro monitor 😉

[@ShaneCurtis-nl2ev]

I use vim btw

[@JacobSargentTech]

Is this the same comment from my other video?

[@godkid.]

What did you use to view pdf on the web app

[@JacobSargentTech]

Hey, thanks for your comment. I use an iFrame! 👍

[@samuelfreeman8704]

Can you be my mentor ?

[@JacobSargentTech]

I offer mentorship sessions on my website jacobsargent.co.uk, check them out 👍

[@MrRandomgamerdkHD]

Why is the alarm going off all through out the video 🥲

[@JacobSargentTech]

Sorry it’s actually part of the background music, perhaps I’ll choose another track for next weeks video 😉